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Oklahoma A&M Aggies football
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program represents Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in college football. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level, the Cowboys are led by Mike Gundy, who is in his tenth year as head coach. Oklahoma State plays their games at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater. The Oklahoma A&M Aggies played their first season of football in 1900 and joined their first conference for the start of the 1915 season, in 1925, the Oklahoma A&M program joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. In 1928, the MVIAA split into the Big Six Conference, A&M was the only large school that joined the smaller MVC. Jim Lookabaugh led the Cowboys for eleven seasons, which included a 9–0 campaign, Lookabaugh was an OSU alum who lettered in multiple sports. In October 2016, Oklahoma State was retroactively awarded the 1945 National Championship by the American Football Coaches Association, Lookabaugh stepped down after the 1949 season, finishing his tenure with a mark of 58–41–6. From 1950 to 1954, Jennings B, whitworth coached at Oklahoma A&M, and compiled a 22–27–1 record, which included only one winning season, a 7–3 campaign in 1953. Whitworth departed A&M to accept the coaching position at Alabama following the 1954 season. Cliff Speegle took the reins of the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys, under Speegles tutelage, the Cowboys compiled a record of 36–42–3, which included three winning seasons from 1957 to 1959. The losing record, combined with an 0–8 mark against rival Oklahoma, in 1956, A&M announced it was joining what had become the Big Seven for the 1958–59 academic year. As part of a period, the Cowboys went independent for two years. On May 15,1957, Oklahoma A&M changed its name to Oklahoma State University and they officially became a part of the renamed Big Eight Conference in 1958. Longtime Bear Bryant assistant Phil Cutchin led Oklahoma State to its first win over Oklahoma in 20 years, Cutchin was replaced by the OSU administration eager to see a winning product on the field. Oklahoma State continued to struggle under head coach Floyd Gass, an OSU alum, during his tenure, he led the team to three straight losing seasons. Fan and administration support became increasingly hard to come by as the on-field production slipped, despite the lack of football success, Gass would serve in multiple capactities at OSU, including athletics director for several years after his resignation as football coach. The Cowboys were finally able to enjoy a winning season —their first in nine years—in 1974 under the leadership of head coach Dave Smith, however, Smith wouldnt stick around, as he departed for the head coaching position at SMU after just one season in Stillwater. Jim Stanley, a defensive coordinator at OSU, returned to Stillwater to become the head coach of the Cowboys in 1973

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Southwest Conference
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The Southwest Conference was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at times the conference included schools from Oklahoma. After a long period of stability, Arkansas left in 1991 to join the Southeastern Conference, by March 1,1914 a number of schools had responded favorably to the idea. The first organizational meeting of the conference was set to be held on April 30,1914, the date was changed because representatives from every school could not make it then. It was ultimately held on May 5 and 7,1914 at the Oriental Hotel in Dallas, Texas and it was chaired by L. Theo Bellmont. Originally, Bellmont wanted Louisiana State University and the University of Mississippi to join the conference as well, the Southwest Intercollegiate Athletic Conference became an official body on December 8,1914, at a formal meeting at the Rice Hotel in Houston. Rice University left the conference in 1916, only to re-join in 1918, phillips University was a conference member for one year. Oklahoma left in 1919 to join the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, however, the series between Texas and Oklahoma would continue as a non-conference matchup in the annual Red River Rivalry game held in Dallas. From 1925 until 1991, the University of Arkansas would be the only member not located within the state of Texas. By 1925, the name was shortened to simply Southwest Conference. After its organizational years, the conference settled into regularly scheduled meetings among its members, the SWC would be guided by seven commissioners, the first of whom, P. W. St. Clair, was appointed in 1938. In 1940, the conference took control of the then five-year-old Cotton Bowl Classic, Texas Technological College joined the SWC in 1958, followed by the University of Houston for the 1976 season. The conference celebrated its glory years in the 1960s, dominated by two teams, Texas and Arkansas. Texas won the 1963 National Championship, and Arkansas won a National Championship in 1964 in the Football Writers Association of America, in 1969, Texas won another National Championship by beating #2-ranked Arkansas 15-14 in the regular seasons final game. The 1969 Arkansas-Texas game in Fayetteville, Arkansas, attended by President Richard Nixon, is counted among the greatest college football games ever played. Texas also won the 1970 United Press International National Championship, which until 1974 was awarded prior to the bowl games, opponents usually were the runners-up from the Big 8 Conference or the Southeastern Conference, although independents Penn State and Notre Dame were also often featured. From the 1940s onward, the Cotton Bowl Classic was counted among the four bowl games. However, in the 1990s, the game declined in importance, in 1977, Notre Dame became the last team to win a national championship in the Cotton Bowl Classic by beating Texas in the January 1978 game

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John Maulbetsch
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Johnny Maulbetsch was an All-American football halfback at Adrian College in 1911 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1914 to 1916. He is also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Maulbetsch became known as the Human Bullet because of his unusual low, line-plunging style of play, and was also known as the Featherweight Fullback because of his light weight and small size. After his performance against Harvard in 1914, in some reports indicated he gained more than 300 yards, eastern writers, including Damon Runyan. Maulbetsch was also selected by Walter Camp to his All-American team, in 1915, Maulbetsch underwent surgery for appendicitis and did not perform to the same level as he had in 1914. He made a comeback as a senior in 1916 and was one of the leading players in college football. Between 1917 and 1920, Maulbetsch was the football coach at Phillips University. Maulbetsch quickly turned Phillips into one of the top programs in the southwest, as his teams beat Oklahoma and Texas, Maulbetsch was later the football coach at Oklahoma A&M and Marshall College in the 1920s. Maulbetsch was born and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and he attended Ann Arbor High School where he led the football team to consecutive state championships in 1908 and 1909. One account of the 1908 playoffs noted, Ann Arbors smashing play in the first half was due to Maulbetsch, Ann Arbors fullback. He clearly outshone his team mates, after graduating from high school, Maulbetsch joined the Ann Arbor Independents, a football team made up of Michigan varsity eligibles and townies. Maulbetsch was once called upon to drive across the goal line for the Independents in a game in which a large crowd, including a farmer with his plow-horse. Head down and legs working like piston rods, Maulbetsch plowed ahead until head struck the plow horse amidships, down went the horse Mauly on top of him. Maulbetsch started his football career at age 21, leading Adrian College to an 8–0 record in 1911. Maulbetschs performance drew the attention of Michigan Coach Fielding H. Yost, after watching Maulbetsch dominate Michigans freshman team, Yost concluded, If I could get that kid into Michigan and keep him up in his studies I’d make an All-American place for him his first year. Yost persuaded Maulbetsch to transfer, and he played with the scrubs in 1912, Yost told the press at the time he had another Heston in Maulbetsch. Maulbetsch did not play for the varsity team until the fall of 1914 when he was 24 years old, before the season began, Maulbetsch was touted as one of the fastest halfbacks who ever donned moleskins. He weighs 155 pounds, is low, has a powerful pair of shoulders. Another pre-season account said he was a wonder as a line plunger, from the outset, considerable attention was paid to his unusual running style

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Boone Pickens Stadium
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Boone Pickens Stadium has been home to the Oklahoma State University Cowboys football team in rudimentary form since 1913, and as a complete stadium since 1920. The facility is the oldest football stadium in the Big 12 Conference but was largely neglected and enjoyed only modest renovations throughout its near-century of existence. An ambitious fund-raising project for the renovation dubbed The Next Level became the flagship effort of the Oklahoma State athletic department, Oklahoma State, then known as Oklahoma A&M, first began playing at the current site of Pickens Stadium in 1913. In addition to his duties as dean and instructor at OAMC, under his brief administration, OAMC established the first school of commerce and marketing in the nation and developed experimental stations around the state. In addition to naming the field after him, the students also dedicated the 1914 yearbook, its first, the school built a permanent 8, 000-seat grandstand—roughly corresponding to the lower level of the current facilitys north grandstand—in 1920. The stadium originally was positioned in the traditional north-south direction, but was reoriented east-west to avoid the prevailing winds. It remains one of a handful of stadiums in the United States with goals at the east and west ends. The university planned to build a stadium, similar to Ohio State Universitys Ohio Stadium. During the 1929–1930 seasons,8,000 permanent seats were built on the side for an overall capacity of 13,000. In 1947 the south stands were increased from 20 to 53 rows, for the first time, a permanent press box was then added. Prior to the 1950 season,10,600 seats were added to the north stands, after the 1971 season the cinder track was removed, lowering the field 12 feet and making the space between the field and the stadium retaining walls among the smallest in college athletics. Twenty rows of permanent seats were added to both sides of the stadium. This expansion, including conversion to an artificial turf playing surface. Press box construction was completed in 1980 at a cost of $1.8 million, a lighting system for night games was installed in time for the 1985 season and cost approximately $750,000. The all-time attendance record for Lewis Field is 51,458 for the Bedlam Series game in 1979, in a side note to history, the field hosted the Oklahoma Outlaws and the Houston Gamblers of the USFL professional football league in 1984. Due to a conflict at Tulsas Skelly Stadium, the Outlaws were forced to play their last Exhibition game in Stillwater, only 6,120 attended the cold February 19 game. Lewis Field was officially renamed Boone Pickens Stadium during a ceremony at the 2003 football game versus the University of Wyoming. The stadium’s name was changed to honor OSU alumnus T. Boone Pickens, the stadium turf was replaced in 2005

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Rice Owls football
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The Rice Owls football team represents Rice University in NCAA Division I college football. The Owls have competed in Conference USAs Western Division since 2005, Rice Stadium, built in 1950, hosts the Owls home football games. Rice Stadium was built in 1950, and has been the home of Owls football ever since and it hosted the NFL Super Bowl on January 1974. It replaced the old Rice Field to increase seating, total seating capacity in the current stadium was reduced from 70,000 to 47,000 before the 2006 season. The endzone seating benches were removed and covered with tarps, and all of the bleachers were replaced with new, metal seating benches in 2006. The stadium is currently undergoing further renovations. The Owls played in the eighteenth Cotton Bowl Classic against the Crimson Tide of Alabama, referee Cliff Shaw saw Lewis come off the bench and gave the Owls the 95 yard touchdown. Rice would win the game 28-6, with the only Crimson Tide score coming from Lewis, the yardage added to Moegles 265 yards rushing, a Cotton Bowl Classic record that would stand until Tony Temples effort in 2008. This would be the Owls last bowl win until the 2008 Texas Bowl, Rice Stadium also hosted a speech by John F. Kennedy on September 12,1962. In it, he used the Rice football team to challenge America to send a man to the moon, but why, some say, the moon. Why choose this as our goal, and they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why,35 years ago, fly the Atlantic and we choose to go to the moon. The rivalry is because Rice and SMU were two of four schools in the old Southwest Conference. Rice participates in a rivalry with Houston. UH and Rice play annually for the Bayou Bucket, a weathered bucket found by former Rice guard Fred Curry at an antique shop, Curry had it designed into a trophy for $310. The two universities are separated by five miles in Houston, the Cougars lead the series 29-11. The Cougars 2013 move from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference has jeopardized the status of the series though, it is scheduled to resume in 2017. Rice and Texas have maintained a largely one-sided rivalry beginning in the days of the Southwest Conference. Texas 28 consecutive victories from 1966–1993 represents the sixth longest single-opponent winning streak in football history

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1921 college football season
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Only California, Cornell, and Lafayette claim national championships for the 1921 season. Andy Smiths Pacific Coast Conference champion Wonder Team at California continued on its streak since 1920, eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sports great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Jock Sutherlands Lafayette Maroons were led on the line by Frank Schwab, big Ten champion Iowa upset Notre Dame 10–7. 1921 was the last season for the old Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, vanderbilt tied co-champion Georgia on an onside kick. On October 6, Centre upset Harvard 6–0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, Georgia Tech also claimed a conference title. The 1922 Rose Bowl was fought to a tie, between California and Washington & Jefferson, in the last Rose Bowl to be played at Tournament Park. W&J is the smallest school to play in a Rose Bowl. Pittsburgh football game, the first college game to be broadcast live on radio. Today, college football on radio is common for every game in every division. On October 29, Centre College beat Harvard 6 to 0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, in the 1922 Rose Bowl, the heavily favored California Golden Bears played Washington & Jefferson to a scoreless tie

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Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Stillwater is a city in north east Oklahoma at the intersection of US-177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States, as of 2012, the city population was estimated to be 46,560, making it the tenth largest city in Oklahoma. Stillwater is the city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical Area which had a population of 78,399 according to the 2012 census estimate. Stillwater was part of the first Oklahoma Land Run held April 22,1889, the city charter was adopted on August 24 later that year. Stillwater has an economy with a foundation in aerospace, agribusiness, biotechnology, optoelectronics, printing and publishing. The city operates under a government system. The citys largest employer is Oklahoma State University and it was one of the 100 top places to live in 2010, according to CNN Money Magazine. Stillwater is located in the popularly known as Tornado Alley. It has a subtropical climate and the highest recorded temperature was 115 °F on August 11,1936. The city is home to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum, the north-central region of Oklahoma became part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In 1832, author and traveler Washington Irving provided the first recorded description of the area around Stillwater in his book A Tour on the Prairies and he wrote of “a glorious prairie spreading out beneath the golden beams of an autumnal sun. The deep and frequent traces of buffalo, showed it to be a one of their grazing grounds. ”According to one legend, local Native American tribes — Ponca, Kiowa, Osage. A second legend states that cattlemen driving herds from Texas to railways back east always found water still there, a third legend holds that David L. Payne walked up to Stillwater Creek and said, “This town should be named Still Water”. Members of the thought he was crazy, but the name stuck. Stillwater Creek received its name in 1884 when William L. Couch established his “boomer colony” on its banks. On April 22,1889, the cannons fired signaling the first Land Run that opened up the Unassigned Lands of the Oklahoma Territory, which included Stillwater. By the end of the day,240 acres had been claimed and designated as Stillwater township, the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture simply says that the name officiallybecame Stillwater only when the post office opened on May 28,1889. On Christmas Eve,1890, the legislature of Oklahoma Territory passed a bill certifying Stillwater as the land grant college site, in 1894, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College held a dedication of its first brick building, Assembly Building, later known as Old Central

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Columbia, Missouri
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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Boone County. Founded in 1818, it is home to the University of Missouri and is the city of the Columbia Metropolitan Area. It is Missouris fourth most-populous city, with a population of 119,108 in 2015. As a midwestern town, the city has a reputation for progressive politics, public art. At the center of Downtown is 8th Street, also known as the Avenue of the Columns, which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse, originally an agricultural town, the cultivation of the mind is Columbias chief economic concern today. Never a major center of manufacturing, the city depends on healthcare, insurance. Several companies, such as Shelter Insurance, Carfax, and Slackers CDs, cultural institutions include the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the only major college athletic program, play football at Faurot Field. The city is built upon the hills and rolling prairies of Mid-Missouri, near the Missouri River valley. Limestone forms bluffs and glades while rain carves caves and springs which water the Hinkson, Roche Perche, surrounding the city, Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge all form a greenbelt preserving sensitive and rare environments. The first humans were hunters who entered the area at least twelve thousand years ago. Later, woodland tribes lived in villages along waterways and built mounds in high places, the Osage and Missouria nations were expelled by the exploration of French traders and the rapid settlement of American pioneers. German, Irish, and other European immigrants soon joined, the modern populace is unusually diverse, over eight percent foreign-born. While White and Black remain the largest ethnicities, Asians are now the third-largest group, todays Columbians are remarkably highly educated and culturally midwestern, though traces of their Southern past remain. The city has called the Athens of Missouri for its classic beauty and educational emphasis. The Columbia area was part of the Mississippian culture and home to the Mound Builders. When European explorers arrived, the area was populated by the Osage, in 1678, La Salle claimed all of Missouri for France. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the area on the Missouri River in early June 1804, in 1806, two sons of Daniel Boone established a salt lick 40 miles northwest of Columbia

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1921 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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The 1921 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1921 college football season. No Sooners were recognized as All-Americans, and end Howard Marsh was the only Sooner to receive all-conference honors

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Norman, Oklahoma
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Norman /ˈnɔːrmən/ is a city in the U. S. state of Oklahoma 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City in its metropolitan area. The population was 110,925 at the 2010 census, Normans estimated population of 120,284 in 2015 makes it the third-largest city in Oklahoma, and the city serves as the county seat of Cleveland County. Norman was settled during the Land Run of 1889, which opened the former Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory to American pioneer settlement, the city was named in honor of Abner Norman, the areas initial land surveyor, and was formally incorporated on May 13,1891. The university is known for its sporting events by teams under the banner of the nickname Sooners. The university is home to museums, including the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, which contains the largest collection of French Impressionist art ever given to an American university, Norman lies within Tornado Alley, a geographic region where tornadic activity is particularly frequent and intense. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area, including Norman, is the most tornado-prone area in the world, the Storm Prediction Center, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is located at the NWC. SPC forecasts severe storm and tornado outbreaks nationwide, additionally, research is conducted at the co-located National Severe Storms Laboratory, which includes field research and operates various experimental weather radars. In 2008, CNNs Money Magazine ranked Norman as the sixth best small city within the United States to live in, the Oklahoma region became part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Treaties of 1832 and 1833 assigned the area today as Norman to the Creek Nation. Following the Civil War, the Creeks were accused of aiding the Confederacy, in the early 1870s, the federal government undertook a survey of these unassigned lands. Abner Ernest Norman, a 23-year-old surveyor from Kentucky, was hired to oversee part of this project. In 1887, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway began service to the area, which was later opened to settlement as part of the Land Run of 1889, early settlers decided to keep the name Norman. On April 22,1889, the Land Run saw the founding of Norman, with at least 150 residents spending the night in makeshift campsites, by the next morning a downtown was already being constructed. On December 19,1890, Larsh and Waggoner were successful with the passage of Council Bill 114, the City of Norman was formally incorporated on May 13,1891. The city has continued to grow throughout the decades, the rail lines eventually transitioned to freight during the 1940s as the United States Numbered Highway system developed. The city population reached 11,429 in 1940, in 1941, the University of Oklahoma and Norman city officials established Max Westheimer Field, a university airstrip, and then leased it to the U. S. Navy as a Naval Flight Training Center in 1942. The training center was used for training combat pilots during World War II, a second training center, known as Naval Air Technical Training Center, and a naval hospital were later established to the south

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Bedlam Series
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The Bedlam Series refers to the athletics rivalry between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference. Both schools were members of the Big 8 Conference before the formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1996. The Bedlam Series is, like most other intrastate rivalries, a rivalry that goes beyond one or two sports, both schools also have rivalries with other schools, though most of those rivalries are limited to one or two sports at the most. The rivalry is all the more intense since their games often decide the conference championship, when the Bedlam Series gained Ford and the Bank of Oklahoma as corporate sponsors, the series became much more formalized. A points system was adopted in order to award a winner of the all athletic competitions combined between the two schools, a crystal bell trophy is awarded to individual Bedlam game winners, in addition to a trophy for the overall series champion for that year. The Bedlam Bell is modeled after the clapper in Old Central. For a time, the bell clapper was a traveling trophy for the two schools, until the popularity of this tradition waned. The first Bedlam football game was held at Island Park, now known as Mineral Wells Park, in Guthrie and it was a cold, and very windy day with the temperatures well below the freezing mark. At one moment in the game when the Oklahoma A&M Aggies were punting, if the Oklahoma A&M squad recovered the ball it would be a touchback and if the University of Oklahoma squad recovered it, it would be a touchdown. The ball rolled down a hill into the half-frozen creek, since a touchdown was at stake, members of both teams dove into the icy waters to recover the ball. A member of the OU team came out with the ball, though this was not the source of the name Bedlam, the scene was clearly an apt beginning for the Bedlam Series in football. Author Steve Budin, whose father was a New York bookie, has recently publicized the claim that the 1954 Bedlam Game was fixed by mobsters in his book Bets, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Allegedly, the threatened and paid off a cook to slip laxatives into a soup eaten by many OU Sooner starting players. OU was victorious in the end, but their 14–0 win did not cover the 20-point spread they had in their favor, however, many people involved in the 1954 contest do not recall any incident like the one purported by Budin to have occurred. Oklahoma currently leads the series 86–18–7, the series has historically been very lopsided in the Sooners favor, Oklahoma State has defeated OU twice in a row just three times since World War II, and has never done it three times in a row. Oklahoma owns the series record in mens basketball, 135–95. The Sooners swept the 2013–14, 2014–15 and 2015–16 regular season Bedlam series for the fourth and fifth time in the last 10 seasons, oSUs last series sweep came in 2017. OU is 17–6 in the last 23 Bedlam games and is now 25–18 vs. the Cowboys since the formation of the Big 12, Oklahoma State holds a large advantage in the schools wrestling rivalry, the original Bedlam Series

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College Station, Texas
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College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East-Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley, in the center of the region known as Texas Triangle. It is 90 miles northwest of Houston and 87 miles northeast of Austin, as of the 2010 census, College Station had a population of 93,857, which had increased to an estimated population of 100,050 as of July 2013. College Station and Bryan together make up the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area, College Station is home to the main campus of Texas A&M University, the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The city owes both its name and existence to the location along a railroad. Due largely to the presence of Texas A&M University, College Station was named by Money magazine in 2006 as the most educated city in Texas, the origins of College Station date from 1860, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway began to build through the region. Eleven years later, the site was chosen as the location for the proposed Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, in 1876, as the nation celebrated its centennial, the school opened its doors as the first public institution of higher education in the state of Texas. The population of College Station grew slowly, reaching 350 in 1884 and 391 at the turn of the century, however, during this time, transportation improvements took place in the town. In 1900, the I&GN Railroad was extended to College Station, the interurban was replaced by a city bus system in the 1920s. In 1930, the community to the north of College Station, College Station did not incorporate until 1938 with John H. Binney as the first mayor. Within a year, the city established a commission, and by 1940. The city grew under the leadership of Ernest Langford, called by some the Father of College Station, early in his first term, the city adopted a council-manager system of city government. Population growth accelerated following World War II as the nonstudent population reached 7,898 in 1950,11,396 in 1960,17,676 in 1970,30,449 in 1980,52,456 in 1990, and 67,890 in 2000. The population for the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area range from an estimated 250,846 to 271,773 by 2030. College Station is located south of the center of Brazos County at 30°36′5″N 96°18′52″W and it is bordered by the city of Bryan to the northwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 49.6 sq mi, of which 49.4 sq mi is land and 0.19 sq mi. The local climate is subtropical and temperate and winters are mild with periods of low temperatures usually lasting less than two months, snow and ice are extremely rare. Summers are warm and hot with occasional showers being the only variation in weather. About 27. 1% of all households were made up of individuals, the average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.98

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Creighton Bluejays football
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The first year of Creighton Bluejays football was in 1900. They fielded a team every year from 1900 to 1942. Creighton adopted a Bluejay as its mascot in 1924, when the University’s athletic board selected the name from submissions for a contest run by the Omaha Bee newspaper, the Bluejays won two North Central Conference championships and one Missouri Valley Conference championship. In 1942, every player was drafted to fight in World War II. To this day, the Creighton bookstore sells T-shirts that read, Creighton Football, Still Undefeated, List of Creighton Bluejays football seasons List of Creighton Bluejays football opponents Images of Creighton football players at Creighton digital collections

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Omaha, Nebraska
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Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omahas population was 408,958, according to the 2014 Population Estimates, Omahas population was 446,599. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U. S. Census Bureaus 2013 estimate. There are nearly 1.3 million residents within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile radius of Downtown Omaha, Omahas pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the Worlds Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omahas central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub, throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the worlds largest, Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters, Green Plains Renewable Energy, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, Werner Enterprises, and West Corporation. And Leo A Daly, the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame, Enron began in Omaha as Northern Natural Gas in 1930, before taking over a smaller Houston company in 1985 to form InterNorth, which Kenneth Lay moved permanently to Houston, in 1987. The modern economy of Omaha is diverse and built on skilled knowledge jobs, in 2009, Forbes identified Omaha as the nations number one Best Bang-For-The Buck City and ranked it number one on Americas Fastest-Recovering Cities list. Also, Omaha hosted the U. S. Olympic swim trials in 2008,2012 and 2016, the word Omaha means Dwellers on the bluff. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the riverbanks where the city of Omaha would be built, there was fierce competition among fur traders until John Jacob Astor created the monopoly of the American Fur Company. The Mormons built a town called Cutlers Park in the area in 1846, while it was temporary, the settlement provided the basis for further development in the future. Through 26 separate treaties with the United States federal government, Native American tribes in Nebraska gradually ceded the lands comprising the state. The treaty and cession involving the Omaha area occurred in 1854 when the Omaha Tribe ceded most of east-central Nebraska, Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha and signatory to the 1854 treaty, played an essential role in those proceedings. Before it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs, Brown is generally credited as having the first vision for a city where Omaha now sits. The passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 was presaged by the out of claims around the area to become Omaha by residents from neighboring Council Bluffs. On July 4,1854, the city was established at a picnic on Capital Hill

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Emporia State Hornets football
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The Emporia State Hornets football program is a college football team that represents Emporia State University, often referred to as Emporia State or ESU. The team competes as a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, the program began in 1897 and has fifteen conference titles. On December 15,2006, former Hornet quarterback Garin Higgins became the teams 24th head coach, home games are played on Jones Field at Welch Stadium, located on the Emporia State University campus in Emporia, Kansas. The most successful era for ESU football was from 1928 to 1954, from 1955 to 1982, the Hornets struggled to find success on the football field, as the teams overall winning percentage during that era slipped to.295. From 1983 through the 2013 season, ESUs winning percentage increased to.537, during the 2012 season, the Hornets competed in a postseason game for the first time since 2003 and placed second in the conference. Until the 1930s, the Kansas State Normal/Kansas State Teachers College didnt have an athletics nickname, in the early 1930s, the athletic teams were then known as the Yaps. However, many people were not fond of the name, most notably legendary coach, the Kansas State Normal School, now known as Emporia State University, fielded its first football team in 1893, which had no coach. In 1893, KSN played the College of Emporia, which KSN won 14–0, after playing six abbreviated game seasons, KSN played its first full schedule in 1899 and had a 2–3–0 record under no head coach. The 1899 football season was the first of the Turnpike Tussle series, in 1900, John Lamb served one season as KSNs football coach, posting the first winning season in school history. After Lambs season, Northern Iowas coach Fred Williams, who later was an attorney, came to KSN from to serve as head coach, the 1902 season featured the programs second–only game of its rivalry against Washburn, a 0–6 Hornet loss. The program had eight coaches from 1900–13, but in 1914. He held it for the three highly successful seasons, through 1917, and then again from 1920–27. Hargiss overall coaching record at KSN/KSTC was 61–23–11, Hargiss is the only head coach in school history to have an undefeated season and puts him third at the school in terms of winning percentage. Hargiss best seasons were the 1921 and 1926 seasons, when the Normals/Teachers posted an undefeated season, the closest game of the season was a 6–0 battle against Hargisss former team, the College of Emporia. ESU has not had another undefeated season since 1926, in the 1918 and 1919 seasons, KSN had two unsuccessful coaches, H. D. McChesney with a 2–2–0 record, and George McLaren with a 1–6–2.222 record. KSN alum Fran Welch was hired by his alma mater as the 13th head football coach in 1928, Welch led the Teachers to a 7–0–1 record during his first season. In the 1932 and 33 seasons were a low season for the Yaps, from 1934 until 1942, the Hornets had some winning seasons, and losing seasons. Because of WWII, the Hornets did not field a team from 1942–45, in the next five out of six seasons, the Hornets won five conference championships

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Phillips Haymakers football
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The Phillips Haymakers football team represented the now-defunct Phillips University. Between 1917 and 1920, John Maulbetsch was the football coach at Phillips University. Maulbetsch was an All-American running back at the University of Michigan in 1914, with his name recognition, he was able to recruit big-name talent to Phillips, including future Pro Football Hall of Famer Steve Owen, and future United States Olympic Committee President Doug Roby. Maulbetsch quickly turned Phillips into a contender in the southwest, as his teams beat Oklahoma and Texas. The 1919 team, known as Mauleys Iron Men, was considered by experts to be the finest football squad in the southwest that season. After defeating the Oklahoma and Texas football teams, the Haymakers gained a reputation as “one of the strongest teams in the southwest. ”When Phillips defeated Texas 10-0 in Austin, Texas in October 1919, one Texas newspaper reported that Phillips had whitewashed the Longhorns in their own corral. As a result of Phillips success, it was admitted to the Southwest Conference for the 1920 season. However, with the loss of key players from the previous squads, Phillips fell to 4-5-1 record, failed to score a single point in conference play. Maulbetsch was hired to coach Oklahoma A&M in 1921, unable to sustain its previous success, the programs reputation faded, the school finally closed the program in 1933

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Enid, Oklahoma
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Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,379 and it is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, in 1991, the Oklahoma state legislature designated Enid the Purple Martin Capital of Oklahoma. Enid holds the nickname of Queen Wheat City and Wheat Capital of Oklahoma and the United States for its grain storage capacity. In summer 1889, M. A. Low, a Rock Island official, visited the railroad station then under construction. At that time, it was called Skeleton station, disliking the original name, he renamed the station Enid after a character in Alfred Lord Tennysons Idylls of the King. However, a fanciful story of how the town received its name is popular. According to that tale, in the following the land run, some enterprising settlers decided to set up a chuckwagon and cook for their fellow pioneers. Some other, more free-spirited settlers, turned that sign backward to read, of course, Enid, the rail station, was the original town site endorsed by the government. It was platted by the surveyor W. D. Twichell, then of Amarillo, the Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War ensued when the Department of the Interior moved the government site three miles south of the station prior to the land run, which was then called South Enid. During the run, due to the Rock Islands refusal to stop, by the afternoon of the run, Enids population was estimated at 12,000 people located in the Enids 80-acre town plat. A year later, the population was estimated at 4,410, growing to 10,087 by 1907, the towns early history was captured in Cherokee Strip, A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood by Pulitzer-winning author Marquis James, who recounts his boyhood in Enid. He writes of the town, A trip to Enid was surely a marvelous treat. First off, on the edge of the prairie was a house here and house there--and not so many of them sod houses, quite a few were even painted. Pretty soon the stores began, with the buildings touching each other and no front yards at all, then you came to the Square. You never saw so many rigs or so many people, Enid experienced a golden age following the discovery of oil in the region in the 1910s and continuing until World War II. Enids downtown saw the construction of buildings including the Broadway Tower, Garfield County Courthouse. In conjunction with the oil boom, oilmen such as T. T. Eason, H. H. Champlin, residential additions during this period include Kenwood, Waverley, Weatherly, East Hill, Kinser Heights, Buena Vista, and McKinley

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Washburn Ichabods football
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The Washburn Ichabods football program represents Washburn University in college football. They participate in Division II sports within the NCAA, the team plays their home games in Yager Stadium at Moore Bowl, located on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, Kansas. Wasburns football program back to 1891. The Ichabods claimed one MIAA conference championship in 2005, but 12 conference championships all together, under Craig Schurig, the Ichabods have appeared in the Division II playoffs in 2004,2005,2007, and 2011. Source, Official record against all current MIAA opponents as of the end of the 2015 season, The Ichabods have played their home games in Yager Stadium since 1928

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Oklahoma State Cowboys football
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program represents Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in college football. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level, the Cowboys are led by Mike Gundy, who is in his tenth year as head coach. Oklahoma State plays their games at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater. The Oklahoma A&M Aggies played their first season of football in 1900 and joined their first conference for the start of the 1915 season, in 1925, the Oklahoma A&M program joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. In 1928, the MVIAA split into the Big Six Conference, A&M was the only large school that joined the smaller MVC. Jim Lookabaugh led the Cowboys for eleven seasons, which included a 9–0 campaign, Lookabaugh was an OSU alum who lettered in multiple sports. In October 2016, Oklahoma State was retroactively awarded the 1945 National Championship by the American Football Coaches Association, Lookabaugh stepped down after the 1949 season, finishing his tenure with a mark of 58–41–6. From 1950 to 1954, Jennings B, whitworth coached at Oklahoma A&M, and compiled a 22–27–1 record, which included only one winning season, a 7–3 campaign in 1953. Whitworth departed A&M to accept the coaching position at Alabama following the 1954 season. Cliff Speegle took the reins of the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys, under Speegles tutelage, the Cowboys compiled a record of 36–42–3, which included three winning seasons from 1957 to 1959. The losing record, combined with an 0–8 mark against rival Oklahoma, in 1956, A&M announced it was joining what had become the Big Seven for the 1958–59 academic year. As part of a period, the Cowboys went independent for two years. On May 15,1957, Oklahoma A&M changed its name to Oklahoma State University and they officially became a part of the renamed Big Eight Conference in 1958. Longtime Bear Bryant assistant Phil Cutchin led Oklahoma State to its first win over Oklahoma in 20 years, Cutchin was replaced by the OSU administration eager to see a winning product on the field. Oklahoma State continued to struggle under head coach Floyd Gass, an OSU alum, during his tenure, he led the team to three straight losing seasons. Fan and administration support became increasingly hard to come by as the on-field production slipped, despite the lack of football success, Gass would serve in multiple capactities at OSU, including athletics director for several years after his resignation as football coach. The Cowboys were finally able to enjoy a winning season —their first in nine years—in 1974 under the leadership of head coach Dave Smith, however, Smith wouldnt stick around, as he departed for the head coaching position at SMU after just one season in Stillwater. Jim Stanley, a defensive coordinator at OSU, returned to Stillwater to become the head coach of the Cowboys in 1973

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Sherman E. Smith Training Center
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The Sherman E. Smith Training Center is an on-campus athletic training facility built on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The facility is named after Oklahoma State alumnus Sherman Smith, whose father founded Service Drilling Company of Tulsa and friend, Smith donated $20 million to the Oklahoma State University athletics department to endow the maintenance and general upkeep of the facility. It is believed that the costs for the Training Center will be at least partially financed through the funds donated by Boone Pickens in early 2006. The Training Center is capable of allowing indoor practices for several sports, including football, soccer, baseball, softball, three additional football practice fields, one astroturf with a north/south orientation and two natural grass surfaces, one north/south the other east/west are directly east Training Center. The Smith Training Center is built north of Hall of Fame Avenue, the Center will blend seamlessly with Boone Pickens Stadium, Gallagher-Iba Arena, and the rest of the OSU campus with its modified Georgian architecture. The Centers expansive area is enough for an indoor playing surface large enough to accommodate regulation football. Another indoor facility designed specifically for the Oklahoma State track and field program is expected to be built in the coming years

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Bullet (mascot)
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Bullet is the name of the horse that is ridden by the Spirit Rider at Oklahoma State University-Stillwater football games and other special events. The current Bullet is a black American quarter horse gelding, Bullet was introduced as an Oklahoma State tradition in 1984 by the late Dr. Eddy Finley as part of the Spirit Rider Program. Finley, a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, was said to have inspired by the Red Raiders Masked Rider when creating the Spirit Rider tradition. The current Bullet is the horse used in the OSU Spirit Rider program. The first Spirit Rider horse, a mare named Della, was owned by John Beall Jr. who served as the original Spirit Rider at OSU. When Beall left OSU, the university decided to keep the tradition alive, in 2003, Bullet I was retired and OSU broke in another black horse to roam the sidelines. Bullet II died shortly before the beginning of the 2005 football season and was replaced by a third Bullet, in 2001, Bullet was one of three finalists for the MD Barns Silver Spur Award presented by the American Quarter Horse Association. The award honors American Quarter Horses that have made a significant impact on the lives of others and created a favorable perception of the breed

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Pistol Pete (Oklahoma State University)
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Pistol Pete is the athletics mascot of Oklahoma State University. The Pistol Pete mascot costume features traditional cowboy attire and a headpiece resembling Frank Eaton, Pistol Pete has been the mascot for the Oklahoma State Cowboys since 1923. From the 1890s on, Oklahoma A&M sports teams had been referred to as the Agriculturists or Aggies, the Farmers, and officially but unpopularly, the Tigers. By 1924 Charles Saulsberry, sports editor of the Oklahoma City Times, the Athletic Council authorized Athletic Director Edward C. Gallagher to have 2,000 balloons printed, Oklahoma Aggies - Ride Em Cowboy for sale at football games in 1926. Around 1923, when Oklahoma A&M College was searching for a new mascot to replace their tiger and he was approached to see if he would be interested in being the model for the new mascot, and he agreed. A likeness was drawn and began to be used on sweatshirts, stickers, etc. and that caricature was the basis for what is used today as the official Oklahoma State University mascot. For thirty-five years, the crusty old cowboy was a symbol of OSU. As such, he would attend OSU athletic events, building dedications, etc. and sign autographs, pose for photographs, in more recent years, the University of Wyoming and New Mexico State University began using variations of OSUs artwork as logos for their schools. To this day, his likeness is a reminder of the Old West to literally millions of people yearly as a symbol of colleges whose mascots pay homage to the cowboy. However, it was not until 1958 that Pistol Pete was adopted as the schools mascot, the familiar caricature of Pistol Pete was officially sanctioned in 1984 by Oklahoma State University as a licensed symbol. Each year, an average of 15 Oklahoma State students audition to portray Pistol Pete, a panel of former Petes conduct the tryouts and select two replacements based largely on an interview. Candidates are also asked to exhibit themselves as they would during in-game scenarios, as such, Pistol Pete is often asked to make appearances in parades, community festivals, corporate functions, weddings and birthday parties. Donkey-Hoté Pistol Pete at OSU traditions Pistol Pete Interview Series - Oklahoma Oral History Research Program Frank Eaton at OSUs Special Collections and University Archives

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Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls
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Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma State University. The programs mascot is a cowboy named Pistol Pete, Oklahoma State participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference. The universitys current athletic director is Mike Holder, in total, Oklahoma State has 51 NCAA team national titles, which ranks fourth in most NCAA team national championships. These national titles have come in wrestling, golf, basketball, baseball, the 1945 Oklahoma A&M football team was retroactively awarded a national title in October 2016 by the American Football Coaches Association. Prior to 1957, OSU was known as Oklahoma A&M, as was common with most land-grant schools, its teams were known for many years as Aggies. However, in 1923, A&M was looking for a new mascot to replace its pet tiger, a group of students saw Frank Eaton leading the Armistice Day Parade. He was approached to see if he would be interested in being the model for the new mascot, the caricature, Pistol Pete, that was drawn that year is more or less the same as the one in use today. Only a few decades removed from the cattle drive era, the cowboy was still an important figure in the Southwest, the new mascot had become so popular that by 1924, Charles Saulsberry, sports editor of the Oklahoma City Times, began calling A&Ms teams the Cowboys. Aggies and Cowboys were used interchangeably until A&M was elevated to university status in 1957, the Waving Song is one of the fight songs for Oklahoma State. At Oklahoma State football games, the song is played by the Cowboy Marching Band during the pregame traditions, following touchdowns, for other athletic events, the Waving Song is played after an OSU victory as the start of the fight song trilogy. While the song is played, fans wave their arms in the air. The songs melody is that of The Streets of New York, the lyrics used by Oklahoma State were written by H. G. Seldomridge, a professor who heard the tune on a visit to New York City. The original lyrics used the abbreviation OAMC in place of Oklahoma State and it was first sung in 1908 at a follies show at Stillwaters Grand Opera House. Ever since, it has been a tradition to play the song at OSU athletic events, Oklahoma State first took the basketball court in 1908. Under head coach Henry Iba, the team won NCAA championships in 1945, A&M center Bob Kurland was named the NCAA Tournament MVP during their two championship seasons. Kurland was the first player to win the two times. Oklahoma State has a total of six Final Four appearances, under Eddie Sutton, the team made two Final Four appearances—in 1995 and in 2004. Suttons son, Sean Sutton, began coaching the team in 2006, the team is now coached by Brad Underwood after firing Travis Ford following the 2015-2016 season

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Oklahoma State University Cowboy Marching Band
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The Cowboy Marching Band is the marching band of Oklahoma State University. The first band at Oklahoma A&M College was organized in 1905 by Harry Dunn, a student at the school, a tradition of the band was the use of the OSU Spirit Drum. It was purchased in the mid-1930s for the R. O. T. C and it was believed to be the largest drum in the country at that time

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Johnny Bright incident
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Bright had been the first African American football player to play at Lewis Field two years prior. In 1951, Bright was a pre-season Heisman Trophy candidate from Drake, Bright had never played for a losing team in his college career. Coming into the contest, Drake carried a winning streak. It was a secret that Oklahoma A&M players were targeting Bright. Although Oklahoma A&M had integrated in 1949, the Jim Crow spirit was still much alive on campus. During the first seven minutes of the game, Bright was knocked unconscious three times by blows from Oklahoma A&M defensive tackle Wilbanks Smith. While Smiths final elbow blow broke Brights jaw, he was able to complete a 61-yard touchdown pass to Drake halfback Jim Pilkington a few plays later. Soon afterward, the injury forced him to leave the game. Bright finished the game less than 100 yards, the first time in his three-year collegiate career at Drake. Bob Spiegel, a reporter with the The Des Moines Register, interviewed several spectators after the game, Spiegel also recounted the experiences of a businessman and his wife, who were seated behind a group of Oklahoma A&M practice squad players. At the beginning of the game, one of the turned around said. After the first blow to Bright was delivered by Smith, the player again turned around and told the businessman. That same guy gave me that the same way in practice. Robinson and Ultang had actually set up a camera focusing on Bright before the game after the rumors of him being targeted became too loud to ignore and they rushed the film to Des Moines as soon as Bright was knocked out of the game. The sequence won Robinson and Ultang the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Photography, Oklahoma A&Ms president, Oliver Willham, denied anything happened even after evidence of the incident was published nationwide. This began a cover-up that would last over half a century, during time, whenever the story was discussed. The Bulldogs would not return to the MVC until 1956 for non-football sports, fellow member Bradley University pulled out of the league in solidarity with Drake and did not return for non-football sports until 1955, its football team never played another down in the MVC. The incident eventually provoked changes in NCAA football rules regarding illegal blocking, Bright finished fifth in the balloting for the 1951 Heisman Trophy, and played in the post-season East–West Shrine Game and the Hula Bowl